In addition to the project leadership, the project is overseen by members of the steering committee.

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Sahara Byrne, Professor, Communication and Senior Associate Dean

Chelsea Specht – Barbara McClintock Professor of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Sciences and Associate Dean of the Faculty

College of Arts and Sciences

Jun (Kelly) Liu – Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, Director of the MBG-REU program

College of Engineering

Marjolein van der Meulen, James M. and Marsha McCormick Director of Biomedical Engineering; Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering

College of Veterinary Medicine

Paula Cohen, Professor of Genetics; Director, Center for Reproductive Genomics And Associate Vice Provost for Life Sciences

Cynthia Leifer, Professor of immunology, Department of Microbiology, and Director of the Cornell PACE program. Leifer is a project lead and co-director on the faculty development core.

Praveen Sethupathy; Professor of Physiological Genomics; Director, Center for Vertebrate Genomics

College of Human Ecology

Eve DeRosa – Associate Professor, Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Sesquicentennial Fellow and Cornell University Dean of Faculty

Office of Faculty Development and Diversity

Yael Levitte – Associate Vice Provost for the  Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD). Levitte is a project lead and co-director on the faculty development core.

Gabriela E. Vargas  – Assistant Director in the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD).

Cornell University Graduate School

Josephine Martell – Associate Dean of Academics; Co-Director, Evaluation Research Program, NIH FIRST